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Rainy Day
Rainy day + Vanilla drink + Jazz by Jay Soto = Perfect Tuesday.
My Gmail theme was minimalist until I changed it to dynamic theme recently. Dynamic theme changes according to time or weather of the city where I live in. I like how rainy day is represented in ‘Tree’ theme as a soothing and pleasant color blend:
My entire Gmail was filled with vibrant blend of purple tone until the rain stop.
NUSAE Exco 09/10 Application is Open
The application for NUSAE Exco 09/10 is now open to all NUSAE members, including prospective members and freshmen, with the following positions available:
- President
- Vice-President
- Treasurer
- Publicity Manager
- Welfare Officer
- Student Conductor
Please take a look at this document to learn more about responsibilities for roles listed above. If you’re interested in any of those positions above, you may download the application form and indicate the position you’d like to apply for. Please complete the form and send it to nus.angklung [Email address: nus.angklung #AT# gmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ] by 22 August ’09.
Soccer Bonanza
Join the upcoming street soccer tournament on 18 July 2009 at The Cage, Kallang!
Cash reward of $250 and $150 for winning team and first runner-up are up for grab along with goodies from the sponsors.
Registration is as simple as forming a team of 5-7 soccer players and pen it down on the registration form before 15 July 2009. Visit soccerbonanza.blogspot.com for details of game play, prizes, rules and registration.
Reasons not to mess with children
My friend emailed me funny short stories about conversations with children. The first one is in a class room:
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.
The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’
The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’.
During art lesson:
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work.
As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God.’
The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’
In sunday school:
A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.
After explaining the commandment to ‘honour’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’
Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill..’
At home with mom:
One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?’
Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Momma, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?’
Persuading them:
The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
‘Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor.’A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’
Basic biology lesson:
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’
‘Yes,’ the class said.
‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’A little fellow shouted,
‘Cause your feet ain’t empty.’
Even just some simple manners can get complicated:
The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:
‘Take only ONE . God is watching.’Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies..
A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples.’
Those stories above are amusing!
But imagine yourself in such situation and hearing such responses from innocent children just right before your eyes/ears. Hmm… Now we know why we should not mess with the children.
S/U-ing wisely
So you’ve texted 78277, seen the CAP on your phone screen, and pretty much bothered with that elective carrying a lukewarm grade. Shall it be S/U-ed? If it was, how big would the CAP leap?
If you’re still pondering it at this moment, you gotta be quick and make a decision before the S/U option is closed. Follow this guide of six steps towards peaceful and worry-free holiday after exercising the S/U wisely.
Oh, and don’t get lost in your grade calculation. Put your calculator aside; There are two useful tools within that six steps which crunch the bits and flips of your past grades. Sweat-free accuracy guaranteed.
Do it wisely and have a peaceful holiday!
Faster in Chrome?
What an amusing tidbit during this hectic period:
The snippet above appeared when I opened my Gmail in PC lab, using IE7 on WinXP. I’ve never seen that before when I used Safari, Opera and Firefox. Hahaa.. Clearly, the message is targeted to a specific web browser.
Considering the big number of Gmail users running it on IE, will this small message impact IE’s market share in any way? Hmm…
Ads Free Y!Mail
The three webmail giants have been (and are still) competing for years, aiming to be the best free web email provider. The goal was pretty much clear: attract more users, let them receive and send tons of emails. The more emails flowing in and out of their mailbox, the more their ads are displayed… and hence the revenue kicks in.
The latest move (or probably a leap) by Yahoo Mail to an ads-free email environment puzzled me. Yahoo Mail has billions of active email users who don’t even need to worry about space limit. Yahoo Mail is offered free with no space limit and now with no ads. Hmm… So where does the revenue come from? Will ads revenue from search, news, and other Yahoo services good enough to cover operational costs?
Regardless of how Yahoo and the other two internet giants are performing in this difficult financial situation, the fact that they keep the innovation and improvement wheels running on is still of our best interest. After all, it’s the end consumer like us who benefit most.
The banner above is taken from my Yahoo Mail. It says:
Free
Better
Faster
Yahoo! Mail: Now Ads-Free
FYI: The ads mentioned above refer to graphical and flash-animated advertisement banners that you usually see when browsing and reading your email. My recent outgoing email still include footer promotional message from Yahoo to promote its own email service. Yet, Washington Post reported that the footer one liner ads has gone. Is it possibly only for US Yahoo Mail? Hmm…
Well, at least I won’t see huge banners promoting random stuff from food to lawnmower to partner matching service… which is obviously a good thing!
Earth Hour 2009
Earth Hour starts at 8.30 tonight! The Merlion, Fullerton, Esplanade, Singapore Flyer as well as major buildings and shopping malls are taking part. Will you?
Visit the official Earth Hour’s website for Singapore to read related articles about this event and see Sydney, Hong Kong, Beijing, New Delhi, Athens, Berlin, Paris, London, Madrid and New York among other cities of the world take part in Earth Hour 2009; Catch the iconic buildings and landmarks in the dark.
New Zealanders are now having their Earth Hour. Follow the tweet as Earth Hour
